As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.

I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that’s already done. It’s dress up for your hair!

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.

Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

For an advanced preceiver, the play of life is to assemble and reassemble the self in alternate realities of which this is one.

So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.

The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.

There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?